4 July 2017

Here's what happened in the Reproducible
Builds effort between Sunday June 25 and
Saturday July 1 2017:
Upcoming and past events
Our next IRC meeting is scheduled for July 6th at 17:00 UTC (agenda). Topics to be discussed include an update on our next Summit, a potential NMU campaign, a press release for buster, branding, etc.
Toolchain development and fixes

James McCoy reviewed and merged Ximin Luo's script
debpatch
into the devscripts Git
repository. This is
useful for rebasing our patches onto new versions of Debian packages.

Ximin Luo uploaded
dash,
sensible-utils
and
xz-utils
to the deferred uploads
queue
with a delay of 14 days. (We have had patches for these core packages for over
a year now and the original maintainers seem inactive so Debian conventions
allow for this.)
Patches submitted upstream:

Reviews of unreproducible packages
4 package reviews have been added, 4 have been updated and 35 have been removed in this week,
adding to our knowledge about identified issues.
One issue types has been updated: